Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: portal!cup.portal.com!FelineGrace@uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: batching jobs on SS2 Keywords: No Digest Subjects during Flush Message-ID: <3887@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 27 Jun 91 20:22:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sunspots, Flush Mode Lines: 12 Approved: sun-spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 22:20:07 PDT concerning delaying jobs and batching them at night: Can't you use a CRON-type of program to run your jobs at night? CRON is a program that runs and checks a file of commands you set up. So you could tell CRON to start Mathmatica at midnight taking its commands from a command file already set up (assuming Mathematica will read commands from such a file). HOpe this helps Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com